Research Themes
Sentiment Analysis
Developing machine learning techniques for understanding sentiment expressed in text.
Claim Veracity Detection
Fact checking; multimodal fake news detection; Twitter rumour veracity assessment.
Topic Discovery in Text
Extracting topics, perspectives, viewpoints from text such as news, microblogs, and reviews.
Event-Centric NLU
Natural language understanding built upon event representations of text.
Biomedical NLP
Gaining insights into biomedical literature and clincal text.
Question-Answering
Machine reading comprehension.
Social Media Analysis
Understanding microblog conversations, political debates, citizen participation and many more.
Multimodal Learning
Analysing multimodal data such as text and image for story illustration, caption generation and image generation.
Language Generation
Controllable language generation.